Cécile Dupaquier

SHORT INFO

Based on simple materials that are also used in structural and civil engineering,
Dupaquier's works are created through repetitive gestures and in layers. The possibilities of the
material are questioned and explored, be it through bending, folding, filling or grinding. Her physically
challenging way of working also incorporates "chance in the material" and is always based on a
minimalist understanding of form. Cécile Dupaquier (*1970) also develops site-specific installations in dialogue with the architecture of the
respective exhibition space and conceives and realizes large-scale projects and public artworks in
France, Germany and Switzerland. Most recently, Dupaquier won 1st prize in 2021 for an art in architecture
project for the BKA, Berlin.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023 dark shining bright, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg (D)
2017 Wall Works, Gallery Daniel Marzona, Berlin (D)
2016 private viewing, Fürbringerstraße 20, Berlin (D)
2015 depot interim, Atelier Wilhelmstraße 16 e.V., Stuttgart (D)
2015 multi pli, gallery weisser elefant, Berlin (D)
2013 The Hiding Place, Ocean, Berlin (D)
2012 Epaves, Musée Georges Garret, Vesoul (F)
2008 Par déduction, Galerie de l'école Supérieure d'Arts de Brest (F)
2006 Extension! Réduction!, Espace Arts plastiques, Vénissieux (F)
2005 Accumulation! Extension!, Gallery Piano Nobile, Geneva (CH)
2003 1m/seconde, Galerie du Dourven, Brittany (F)
2001 ArtLiaisonBonnLyon, Kunstmuseum Bonn (D)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023 Bildet Banden, SETAREH, Berlin
Minimal", Larc, Grasse
Joue-la encore, Sam (municipal collection of Vénissieux), Centre d'art Madeleine Lambert, Venissieux
The Joy of Gestures, Palais Eger, Berlin
Relief, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin
Geschnitten Brot, Zwinger Galerie, Berlin
hier und jetzt, Basement, Berlin
2022 blind vision, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin
Et même la matière parle, Siège de l'Ordre des experts-comptables, Paris
random repeat refine, Kunstverein Ingolstadt
Die Obiger Galaxis, Axel Obiger, Berlin
Metalinien, curated by Rüdiger Lange, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin
random repeat refine, Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
2021 очумелая выставка, Museum Ploshad Mira, Krasnoyarsk, commissioned by the Goethe-Institut
Novosibirsk for the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale 2021 (RU)
Le soleil se lève aussi, un-spaced Gallery at Manifesta, Lyon
Prismatiques, stratégie des petites faces, Le 19 - CRAC, Montbéliard
2020 ArtVerona yellow", un-spaced Gallery at online exhibition Art Verona
all over, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg
Accumulation (suite 2020), performance at the opening of "Avant demain" curated by Karine Tissot (from the collection FCAC Geneva), on a proposal by Marie-Ève Knoerle, Château de Penthes, Pregny (CH)
Home Sweet Home - Art in House Arrest, online group exhibition, Gallery Jordan/Seydoux - Drawings & Prints, Berlin
Infinité ∞² - for Éliane Radigue, Galerie weisser elefant, Berlin
2019 L'artiste et les commissaires, curated by Pierre Granoux, LAGE EGAL, Berlin
Alles auf einmal....und der mond, curated by Annette Ruenzler, Adamski Gallery, Berlin
Faktor 92, Maren & Matthias Wagener's collection, Künstlerhaus Faktor, Hamburg
alternative >f>acts, curated by DAG (GLUE), Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
Perron-Kunstpreis, Kunsthaus Frankenthal
26x Bauhaus, curated by Marjolaine Lévy & Thibaut de Ruyter and , Institut Français Berlin, Bremen & Munich
INTOTO #7, curated by Thomas Fougeirol, Julien Carreyn and Renaud Regnery, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
2018 transition, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite 3,curated by Burkhard Brunn, Galerie Thomas Rehbein, Cologne
fug(u)e, with Clara Broermann, Frauenmuseum Berlin e.V. guest at Kommunale Galerie Berlin
BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite 2, curated by Burkhard Brunn, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
FIGURE [OUT], curated by Pascal Brateau, idiotopie, Nancy
2017 Espace libre, Galerie weisser Elefant, Berlin
BACKSTAGE: die Rückseite - the rear side, curated by Burkhard Brunn, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp
&, curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź (P)
Reduzieren als Verdichtung, curated by Burkhard Brunn, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg
Unfinished sympathy, curated by Nadia Lichtig, Salon du Salon #13, Marseille
some thing", curated by Albert Weis, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin
Comme les chutes d'eau déjà tremblent dedans la source", Espace Arts Plastiques Madeleine-Lambert, Vénissieux
2016 pilote : pilote", curated by Monique Wysterski, SEZ, Berlin
True Mirror", Espace Commines, Paris
2015 Tu alles weg, 100 Jahre Schwarzes Quadrat, Galerie weisser elefant, Berlin
Sans titres ( ) #2, Galerie un-spaced, Paris
2014 Raumbestandserhebung, curated by Conny Becker, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Humboldt University Berlin
Kentucky Karaoke, DMNDKT, Berlin
SSIIEE four, SSIIEE, independent exhibition project, Berlin
2013 Variable Surplus(with Markus Zimmermann), NuN, Berlin
Raum, curated by Conny Becker and Marte Kiessling, Tête, Berlin
2012 Raum ermessen, Pforzheim Galerie
Des accords parfaits, Espace Arts plastiques Vénissieux and CAP Saint-Fons
Replay, Galerie du Dourven, Bretagne
2011 Construction Deconstruction, Project Space Alte Feuerwache, Berlin
Urzula, German video works, Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences
2010 Folly. Orte Zum Verweilen, Seeschlößchen Wustrau, Brandenburg
Quatrain, Dada Post, Berlin
Void, Friedman Galerie Projekt, Berlin
2009 And... Und! (with Gab Heller), Spor klübü, Berlin
Stadt Haus Raum (with Ines Doleschal), Städtische Galerie Ostfildern
2008 Brest (with Antonio Panetta), Showroom, Berlin
Biotop, tmp.deluxe, temporary space for art&media, Berlin
2007 Steady state, vaulted cellar in the old royal city of Berlin
2006 Videofoyer (with Peter Frey), Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken
2005 Passion beyond reason, curated by G.Rockenschaub & G.Miller, Wallstreet one gallery, Berlin
Junge Akademie", Galerie Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin
2004 Departure/arrival, Junge Akademie in der Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken
Werkstatt Junge Akademie", Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Urzula, contemporary video art, curated by Gab. Heller, Gallery Pankow, Berlin

PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, RESIDENCIES (SELECTION)

2022 Artist Scholarship "Neustart Kultur", Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (D)
2021 first prize (project "Zick-Zack"), public art competition, BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) Berlin (D)
2021 second prize (project "Recherche"), public art competition, BKA Berlin (D)
2021 Artist Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (D)
2020 Artist Scholarship "Sonderstipendium", Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin (D)
2018 Nominated for the art award of Haus am Kleistpark Berlin (D)
2011-12 Artist in residence, at Collège Gérôme, Vesoul, DRAC Franche-Comté (F)
2004 Artist in residence International Summer Academy, at Museumspark Rüdersdorf, Akademie der Künste Berlin (D)
2003 Artist in residence "Die junge Akademie", Akademie der Künste, Berlin (D)
2001 Artist in residence, St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Galerie Angle and DRAC Rhône-Alpes (F)
1997/98 Artist in residence "Art 3", at Institut français Stuttgart, Region Rhône-Alpes & Baden-Württemberg (D)
1996 Artist grant "Aide individuelle à la création", DRAC Rhône-Alpes (F)
1994-95 Post-graduate grant at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Lyon (F)

COLLECTIONS

Espace Arts Plastiques Vénissieux, France
Private collections in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Saarland, Milan (I), Lyon (F), Los Angeles (USA), Brussels (B)